This class has improved my writing skills. Before taking English Writing 109, I struggled with revising my writing. I had a challenging time revising my work, because I did not know when to remove or rephrase sentences within my papers. However, I during this class I have learned to revise my writing. I can make necessary changes to my writing. For instance, rephrasing or removing evidence that do not support my topic sentence. In addition, when I am given feedback on my papers, I can make the proper changes. For instance, when you suggested I add more specific details about the authors I used for my Annotated Bibliography. I made the proper changes by giving details about the author’s credentials. For instance, I included where the author …show more content…
The first step was finding articles that related to my topic. The next step was reading all articles that I found. The next step was writing summaries for the articles that pertained to my topic. Next, I cited my sources in APA format and placed the references above the appropriate paragraphs. Lastly, I added a title and my name to the bibliography. However, when I was working on my research paper I did not do things in the same order. When I was writing my research paper, I wrote the body paragraphs first. Then, I wrote my introduction and conclusion. Writing the introduction last helped me write a focus thesis statement. The third thing I did when writing my research paper was create a reference page. lastly, I created a title page that included my name, professor, and the …show more content…
In this class, I learned how to revise and edit my work based on feedback that was given to me by my instructor and peers. When I was revising my annotated bibliography and research paper I made changes that were suggested by you and my peers. For instance, during a peer feedback activity a classmate advised me to focus on a certain age group for my research paper. I took my classmate advise, so when I was revising my paper I decided to focus on adolescents who are fourteen to eighteen. In addition, while editing and revising my research paper, I took your advice and presented additional information and removed sentences that were repetitive. Additionally, I can critically read and interpret various text, genres, and contexts while noticing the purpose, format, evidence, tone conventions, and organization. For instance, when I was working on my article annotation assignment I could find the purpose of the article and conventions within the article while reading critically. In addition, my Annotated Bibliography shows I can read critically while noticing the format, tone purpose, and organization within the article. Furthermore, I can engage in critical reading, researching, writing, and thinking processes to compose both formal and informal texts that respond critically to disciplinary knowledge-making contexts and that signal the writer’s credible participation in disciplinary conversations. For instance, my annotated bibliography
During the English 160 course, I improved my approach to writing and developing papers, build on critical reading and grammatical skills, and exceed my previous abilities to write a strong paper as I took into consideration different genre based audiences. If my improvement does not exemplify my determination to learn and prepare for English 161, then I politely request you review my portfolio.
I have always considered writing to be a work in progress, and it constantly can be improved. I have always been devoted to writing. I loved to write stories as a child because I could use my creativity and create any type of character I desired. But I have struggled with writing as well. English has never been my forte. I have received A’s, B’s, C’s, and D’s on essays. I truly never found my voice in writing. In my high school, English teachers would give me mixed reviews on my writing. For example, in 9th grade my English teacher said I was organized with my thoughts, and my writing process was excellent. While in 10th,11th grade ,12th grade my teachers only said negative things about my essays. Not being a strong writer made me despise writing. Then I started to believe that writing is not important. I came to conclusion that writing is not important ,because I am going to be a Math major. I had the mindset that I am not a writer, and will never be a writer. But, my thoughts about writing changed when I started taking English at CSUN.
This course has helped me a lot in developing my writing skills. I have learnt to improve the content and formation of the sentences. The growth is comprised of many other elements that make my writing better. I have become much more confident in writing essays and composing responses towards different topics. This growth came from a lot of practice and the techniques that were taught to me during the course. There are several aspects of this improvement that I would like to mention.
When demonstrating my growth as a writer across several pieces, there are four main learning outcomes in which I have focused on. These include writing, reading, researching and reflecting. Within these learning outcomes, there are many different conventions and ways to understand my various projects and assignments as a writer. Throughout the English 1020 class, I have been able to observe not only my previous strengths, but myself growing as a writer by improving my ability to find strong sources as well as properly citing and explaining them, forming a more logical paragraph structure, and many more conventions when writing an assignment.
English 102 has taught me a lot about my writing. Becoming a better writer and pushing myself to the next level was my goal for this semester. Therefore, I learned how to use research to back up my arguments. We wrote many different essays based on different types of literature, which is something I had not done before. Initially, I had a few problems, but learned from those mistakes to become better at writing. I definitely have things that I need to work on in the future. However, looking back on my semester I have overcome many of my writing obstacles and have become a better writer.
...on, this course has taught me many different aspects to writing that I was unaware of in high school. This course has been incredibly fulfilling for me and has been nothing short of an amazing experience. I truly believe all of the things I have learned within this course, such as, writing proper thesis statements, proving my points within the body, discussing topics that critically engage my readers, the use of grammar, and many other essential skills will help me tremendously on my educational path. Although I have learned many skills as to writing a quality essay, I know there are many aspects to writing I can improve on, such as, expanding on my introductions and providing more background within my topics to the readers. I am extremely grateful for the various skills I have learned throughout this course, and I fully intend to utilize them all as I move forward.
Through this semester, I have learned a lot of writing skills and techniques. The learning process of this course is not smooth, there are many difficulties and issues I have meet during this semester. However, in the meantime I also revived many benefits from this course. I think the skills and techniques I learned from this course not only make me able to pass this class, but also is valued for my future academic journey.
Everyone is expected to use their writing skills either for homework or note taking. The first week of college and I'm already having up to 3 pages of notes for each class. I would like to be more organized in my writing. Although there are more things I would like to change about my writing, I'm satisfied with the way I write.
Thesis Statement: While I still need to work on correct punctuation, I learned TIQA and creating an appropriate thesis statement and continue to grow as a writer.
At the start of this class, I made a goal to develop my writing skills to better prepare me for other courses for my degree. I knew English 106 would be different compared to any other English or college courses that I have taken. I knew English 106 environment will let me grow in diverse writing dimensions. My long serving years of experience in the military has exposed me to many cultures around the globe. In just seven weeks of the course, I have seen some improvement in my writing. This course has afforded me with several techniques that have made writing not only a little bit easier but also more in-depth resulting in a higher level of academic writing versus my normal military style writing. Now I understand the writing process and
Writing is an important part of everyone’s life, whether we use it in school, in the workplace, as a hobby or in personal communication. It is important to have this skill because it helps us as writers to express feelings and thoughts to other people in a reasonably permanent form. Formal writing forms like essays, research papers, and articles stimulates critically thinking. This helps the writer to learn how to interpret the world around him/her in a meaningful way. In college, professors motivate students to write in a formal, coherent manner, without losing their own voice in the process. Improving your writing skills is important, in every English class that’s the main teaching point; to help students improve their writing skills. Throughout my college experience I have acknowledge that
From all the things that I have covered, none of them were as trying as the inevitable research paper. I was worried about the final product and the grade I would receive because I have not had much luck with writing research papers in the past. I find them to be too tedious when having to cite research and quotations that I often did it incorrectly. My works cited page was often messy and unorganized and I could never find enough things to say about my topic in order to fulfill the designated word quota. This time around, I felt a little more confident because I had an outlined guide found in my “Common Sense” text that helped me overcome my worry about the specifics of citing and quoting as well as the organization of my works cited page....
A mentally disabled but diligent female high school student attends a tutoring session at the learning center to work on a classroom writing assignment. Despite encouragement and prompts from the tutor, the student is unable to write. She states that she hates writing and declares that she will take a zero for the grade rather than complete the assignment.
How are you Mrs. Griffin? I was just sitting and reading the old assignments that I did a year ago. I couldn't stop thinking about how much I hated writing until you taught me the basic skill of plotting everything down on a piece of paper before I start writing. I have finally adopted a habit that helps me write and think over my topic before I even pick up the pen.
(intro) Writing is the skill that should be taught to students from (k-12). Writing is the root to get education for students, because without writing no one can able to succeed in education. Writing teach students to communicate better, using correct grammar, punctuation, and improve spelling mistakes in writing. Writing is an important part of communication for students to talk with other peoples. Writing helps to understand of English language and reflect people as a person. Student can improve his writing skill as much as he want to during school and college career, for example, a student is taking test or doing homework for his writing class. Writing play an important role in our life because everybody use writing in their daily life. For example, a businessman use his writing skill for write down his daily profit and loss. (Thesis): Writing help students to prepare for their future education and job.